![]() ![]() He wants to answer your Question.After I read John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart last year, I try to find another book on manhood. Despite a man’s past and the failures of his own father to initiate him, God-as our Father-is fiercely committed to us, to the restoration and release of our masculine hearts. More importantly, it comes with the healing of the wounds that brought those answers and finding a new source of love and validation in his true Father. You are a failure, a idiot.” It gets worse from there.Īnd so the recovery of a man’s heart begins with coming to see the way in which his deepest question got answered and how that has shaped his life. “Do I have what it takes?” Too often, the response back is silence, scorn, or ridicule: “I don’t know.I doubt it.you’ll have to find out for yourself.probably not.” In the case of violent fathers, the question is answered in a devastating way: “No. Our search for validation begins with our fathers a boy is meant to learn the answer to his core question from his dad and from the key men in his life. That’s why a man’s greatest fear is exposure-to be found out as a poser, an imposter, and not really a man. Even if he can’t quite put it into words, every man is haunted by the question, "Do I have what it takes?”Įvery man feels that the world is asking him to be something he doubts very much he has it in him to be. ![]() A man’s search for validation is the deepest search in his life. ![]() Why do you suppose that when a boy learns to ride his bike with no hands or do his first back flip on a trampoline or hit his first home run, he wants his dad there to see it? And all the crazy things young men do-cliff jumping into rivers, racing motorcycles, all the sports competition-what is fueling all that? Our search for validation. ![]()
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